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What's On Your Menubar!!
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This has been without doubt the most useful thread I have read!
I've gone from a pretty basic and not very useful menubar to one full of useful stuff. As I'm on a 12' iBook and require fast user switching winswitch is great, my user name is quite long and took up valuable menubar real estate so the replacement icon is awesome. The other four additions today are menuprefs, himmelbar, spiritedaway(wicked) and Gee:
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MenuPrefs, Himmelbar, SpiritedAway, Gee, synergy, konflabulator, battery, time and winswitch
I've gone from a pretty basic and not very useful menubar to one full of useful stuff. As I'm on a 12' iBook and require fast user switching winswitch is great, my user name is quite long and took up valuable menubar real estate so the replacement icon is awesome. The other four additions today are menuprefs, himmelbar, spiritedaway(wicked) and Gee:
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MenuPrefs, Himmelbar, SpiritedAway, Gee, synergy, konflabulator, battery, time and winswitch
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terriyaki said:
Wow that desktop manager is great, I used another one for a while but it was total crap compared to this one(Its the one feature I've been missing since my move from linux). I love the transition effects, though I have to say I got a bit dizzy playing around with them for like 10 minutes strait, I just couldn't decide which one to use
. I have a 20" screen and I still second the recommendation not just for laptop users, this thing is pretty awsome. Thanks terriyaki.
try an 'o' is stead of the 'p' in that last name...TheT said:LOL
I don't actually need any menu bar extras 'cause I'm on a 12" PB, but I subscribed to this thread just to get the answer
C'mon Lacero, and who is "Veronica Da Spuza" anyways (nothing on Google)?
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Lau
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Mitthrawnuruodo said:I've actually replaced almost all I had in my menu bar just a month ago. Here's my current one (a bit more useful than it was
Mitthrawnuruodo, what's that analogue clock in your menu bar? I really like analogue clocks, but the one in system preferences is quite hard to read. The one you have is much clearer!
Then again, I'm also tempted to just try changing the tiff files to add number markers instead, like I did with the Adium ones (see pg 1of this thread). There's instructions here. Looks fun.
Bingo...stridey said:
Edit: And you don't necessarily have to use Terminal, at all (for those with Terminal fear
). You can copy the Clock.menu to the Desktop (or wherever) use right/ctrl-click -> Show Package Contents (or just rename it to Clock.menu.whatever) and navigate in regular Finder windows. Then replace the Clock_base.tif with the one from the hint. Then copy the Clock.menu back where you found it (after renaming it back if you did this) and replace the original (you did remember to back it up, right? ). You will be prompted for Authentication and you must enter the password for the replacement to take place. Then logout and back in (or maybe it's enough to disable/enable the clock?), and the clock is a bit easier to read... 
sweet ByteController! I was using the demo of synergy for a while but I'm too cheap to pay for something like this
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Lau
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Thanks Mitthrawnuruodo and Stridey. I just did it, and while I was at it replaced my battery meter with this (about halfway down the page). I might go back later and make it slightly less rainbow coloured though. And I was most fearful of using terminal to do it, and tried dropping it in the folder and was exceedingly pleased that it worked. Macs rock. And then I came back and read your reply, Mitthrawnuruodo, and I'm glad you posted that, because it's easier than it looks from the link, and other people can do it. Oh, and I'm using Panther, and it works fine.
Now, with the addition of MailCountX, my minimalist and icon only menu bar looks like this: (l-r MailCountX, hacked Adium, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, hacked Battery, hacked Clock. Ooh, I'm such a rebel....
Now, with the addition of MailCountX, my minimalist and icon only menu bar looks like this: (l-r MailCountX, hacked Adium, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, hacked Battery, hacked Clock. Ooh, I'm such a rebel....
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You're welcome...Lau said:Thanks Mitthrawnuruodo and Stridey. ...
Now, with the addition of MailCountX, my minimalist and icon only menu bar looks like this: (l-r MailCountX, hacked Adium, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, hacked Battery, hacked Clock. Ooh, I'm such a rebel....
Now, for another hack, you can try the colored Bluetooth icon.
Agreed. This has been one of the most useful threads that I have visited in a long time. I bet that I will continualy refrence this thread to see what new applications have been deveoped for the menubar.sdreed25 said:
Left To right
ByteController,Check Off,Calq,Ejector,iClip,BackLight 2,MoofMenu,SlimBatteryMonotor,Time,Airport,SpellCatcher (Well worth the money! Sucky colored menubar item though.),Spotlight
I am attempting to see if I can use MoofMenu for all of my application, document, and project launching. I have cleared my doc of everything except active applications! It's pretty cool.
For those that are having problems getting certain menubar applications to show up in the "right" location I suggest writing a simple Apple Script with the items you want launched from RIGHT to LEFT. My learning curve is very shallow, so I post the following not to insult anybody.
For example:
- Save as application, with extension, run only, sans startup screen (and as a script to edit later). Then go to Finder-->System Prefs->Accounts>Log In Items, then add the script/application.
SlimBatMonotor is actually an application that resides/shows in the menubar, but it can not be moved and prefers to be part of the start up items. The Clock, Airport, SpellCatcher, Spotlight, and SoundSource (not shown) are all imbedded extensions of the OS, and are moveable, but take precedence over the other applications. This leads to a weird sort of jumping around as items load. I found that if I script most of the items they end up where I want them. On a 12" PB it really makes a difference.
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TheT said:...oh, just one thing: why would you have that in Final Cut
Maybe he edits it for a living.
Someone has to!?
Adium menu icon (available here!), Bluephone Elite, ByteController, Menu Meters CPU%, MenuCalenderClock, Spotlight.
Does anyone know a way of getting rid of the spotlight icon to free up some space?